Hanukkah (Chanukah), the Jewish eight-day “festival of lights” is celebrated with a nightly menorah lighting--adding a flame each night--special prayers,...
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Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is the eight‑day Jewish celebration that commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second...
181 months ago

Celebrate the holiday however you like. Just know that, no, Hanukkah is not the Jewish equivalent of Christmas. It has just been advertised to...
71 months ago

By 164 B.C.E. the Maccabees entered the city of Jerusalem and liberated it from the Syrians. They had to rededicate the temple and that's where...
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Hanukkah 2022. In 2022, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 18 and lasts until sundown on Monday, Dec. 26. By My Jewish Learning...
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Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. If you compare them this way, the former will get decimated like our First and Second Temples.
59 months ago

The celebration of Hanukkah in the United States has transformed from a minor festival into one of American Jews' most widely observed holidays.
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Hanukkah, he explained, is different from most home holidays, “because it's about putting the menorah in the window. It's a public statement of...
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For most kids, Hanukkah equals eight nights of presents. One mom explains how she shifted the focus in her family from getting to giving.
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Hanukkah celebrates two intertwined things – a military triumph and a spiritual victory: religious freedom won for a persecuted people.
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